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turn to it without much confidence however that he will care for it. I have to keep busy to keep from being depressed. Money anxieties begin to suggest themselves. I have been comfortable in that respect all winter and would be now if I could get what is owed to me. However I mean to try to keep up courage. We called on the Whittredges last evening and came home in the rain. Alice Sawyer started for home this morning. She came to see us last evening to bid us good bye and I was very sorry to have her go. I wish we were living so that we could have her with us during the winter. It must have rained when she left at 7 O'clock and it has rained all day. Mr & Mrs Bachelder called on Friday. They are going to Europe in a sailing vessel. We asked them to dine with us on Tuesday. Mrs. B. F. Butler has invited us to spend the night with them on Thursday and we have accepted

Tuesday April 21. 1874. I began a picture 18 x 30 yesterday, a late autumn with two figures and have painted on it all day today. It seems to me very successful. Whittredge saw it this evening and thought highly of it. Mrs & Mr Bachelder dined with us. I wrote to Maurice last night and today received a letter from Weir. I sent his picture today to the Brooklyn reception (which takes place next week "The First Shave" and "Murano" I put a low price on them $250 each hoping they may sell.

Saturday 25. A North East rain storm has raged all day. I have not been out of doors. Mrs. Platt called with Miss Cheeney and her father and spent a pleasant half hour with us.- On Wednesday I went up to see Eastman Johnson whom I found considerably worried over his work as well as his affairs. He begins for the first time in years to know some of my anxieties. I did not stay long as he was painting a portrait of a little child which was brought in by the nurse while I was there. Mr. I. T. Johnston gave his annual artists party on Friday to which I was invited but I did not go. President Grant was there. Weir and his wife came down from New Haven. Weir gave a dinner to us the Batchelders and Gifford in Giffords room last evening. He brought Mr. Deane to my room in the afternoon and he told me afterwards that Mr. Deane was going to bring his partner to my studio to see the picture I am painting and he thinks he will buy it. I have about completed it. Cook